Tribal
local MCP serverInstallation
Terminal
claude mcp add tribal -e TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL=... -e TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE=... -e TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME=... -e TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT=... -e TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS=... -e TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1
Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.
Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients
Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.
{
"mcpServers": {
"tribal": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"-i",
"--rm",
"ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1"
],
"env": {
"TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL": "...",
"TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE": "...",
"TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME": "...",
"TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT": "...",
"TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS": "...",
"TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL": "...",
"OPENAI_API_KEY": "...",
"ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "..."
}
}
}
}Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.
Summary
Self-hosted semantic memory over MCP for an engineering team's tacit knowledge. Needs Postgres.
Questions
Tribal is a local MCP server distributed as the oci package ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1.
Run: claude mcp add tribal -e TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL=... -e TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE=... -e TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME=... -e TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT=... -e TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS=... -e TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL=... -e OPENAI_API_KEY=... -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1
Run: codex mcp add tribal --env TRIBAL_DATABASE__URL=... --env TRIBAL_PROJECT_REMOTE=... --env TRIBAL_PROJECT_NAME=... --env TRIBAL_SERVER__TRANSPORT=... --env TRIBAL_SERVER__BIND_ADDRESS=... --env TRIBAL_PUBLIC_MCP_URL=... --env OPENAI_API_KEY=... --env ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/tribal-memory/tribal:0.4.1
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